The difficulty is that the right to privacy, ... is a right to have the government stop you from speaking about me.

Government has to have the flexibility to say, 'We're going to dismiss this person, not because we think he's disloyal but because we think he is [for example] a bad lawyer,'

But they were gathering dust in some courthouse basement. These things were technically accessible, but unless you had a lot of time or could afford to hire a private detective to go look this stuff up, they were effectively secret from you.

I sympathize with this person, but it's really not any different than a posting on an anonymous Web page.

who answered questions in great detail and got rejected.

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,